Mette Kathrine Stærk

Mette Kathrine Stærk is a rigsspillemand (a Danish honorary title for traditional musicians), composer and storyteller, with the accordion as her instrument. She trained on the folk music programme at the Funen Academy of Music, works as a freelance folk musician and plays in the song trio Zenobia and in the fiddler duo Jensen & Bugge with violinist Kristian Bugge. To her, folk music and storytelling go hand in hand: she spent a year visiting 80 traditional musicians from Thy to Christiania, and the stories and anecdotes she has gathered on her travels come with her on stage.